Library of Congress Nobody realized that the battle fought at Bull Run on July 21, 1861, was going to be remembered as the first gory conflict in a long and bloody war. Bull Run, the first land ...

Scores of high-spirited civilians carried picnic baskets and champagne to the battlefield to watch what would turn out to be the first major ... called “the Battle of Bull Run.” ...

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It originally appeared in the Bennington Banner. (Also hear VPR’s podcast on Vermonters’ role in the First Battle of Bull Run.) A few weeks back I heard a Vermont Public Radio commentary ...

the men of the 71st New York State Militia dragged them by hand across the rugged Virginia countryside to the Battle of Bull Run on July 21. There, in the chaos of the Civil War’s first major ...